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Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

How do I say this, Orlando? I mean, last night you were simply...well...

Fabulous.

Yeah, that's the word. :)

John and I arrived extremely nervous for my first-ever book signing, but you guys put us right at ease. It turns out you Wreckies are a kind, considerate bunch who are perfectly willing to patiently wait your turn in line for free cake. And oh, what a Wrecktastic cake it was!

This monster homage of Wreckiness was created by the lovely Johnnie of Something Sweet Cake Studio, located just outside of Orlando in Titusville.

In addition to the Wreck pile-up you see here, Johnnie also provided a yummy chocolate and caramel frosted sheet cake, which disappeared like hot...er...cakes. But, of course, that insane carrot jockey stole the show.

Later in the evening, when the sugar buzz was apparently affecting us all, we actually had a real live baby sitting on that fondant carrot. (Relax; we took it off the cake first.) Someone will have to send me that photo, though, because I didn't get it on my camera. [pouting]

UPDATE:

(AHA! Thanks, Sharlene!)

In addition to the showpiece that Johnnie provided, we also had some truly astounding entries in our cupcake Wreckplica contest. Here's the grand prize winner, by Jackie Cochran:

And here's Jackie wearing her prizes: a CW apron and carrot jockey necklace:

Here are the two runner-ups:

(Bonus points to those of you who recognize/remember all of these Wrecks!)

Choosing the winners was beyond difficult, though; just look at some of the other entries!

(Yes, someone dared to bring a mini CCC [patooie!] to MY signing. The horror! Maybe that's why he or she left her name off. ;) Oh, and the mini order form says "please put vegan icing on it." Heh.)

It's the perspiration wedding cake, in miniature! How cool is that?!?

You can find all of the cupcake entries in the Cake Wrecks FaceBook album.

Thanks again to Johnnie, Sharlene of Photo Art Works (who took all the pretty pics in this post), the Winter Park Borders staff (especially managers Jeff & Selene), and all the rest of you who braved the rain and 5:00 traffic to be there. Here's hoping you had even half as much fun as John and I did!

Glad it went well. Those are great Wreckplicas. (I wish I'd made up that word, it's awesome.)

Sometimes I wonder, is it ever odd to you that you've ended up doing something whose symbol is a mohawk-wearing, carrot-jockeying baby? I mean, how cool is that? (Picturing 2nd grade Jen saying, "When I grow up I'm going to blog. About really scary cakes and baby dolls and carrots will all be a part of it. Yeah.")

Thank you so much for a great evening! Me and my kids loved it. It was defiantly worth driving 352 miles for! And hey, we were making memories people, they can always go to school tomorrow. After all, this was instilling a love of literature through cake.

You are a sweetheart and a real stitch and that hubby John is a real sweetheart too. I loooove you Mum Donna, what a gem of a M-I-L! I would totally hang out with her, she was so friendly and so very proud of you.

Thank you for paying so much attention to Sean and Rosie. They really enjoy the blog and as I said last night, I'm so glad it's kept PG.

Have a wonderful time on the tour. Go wiki Sarah Vowell, she has the same wit as you do and I think you will really like her. Keep us posted!

Waaaaahhhhhhhh! I wanna go to a book signing! Waaaaahhhhhhh! But the "World" tour doesn't go around the world! I would LOVE to see you in China! (Not sure the wreckiness would go over well here, though . . . people might think that Americans truly eat babies!)

Best wishes to you. Orlando has set some pretty high standards for everyone else. As Yoda would say, "May the Wrecks be with you!"

The vegan icing took me back. Once upon a time, I used to be a vegan and the worse part was you couldn't really eat any cakes or biscuits from the shops. So if somebody had specially made a 'vegan' cake..it was such a luxury.

Holy amazing cakes, Batman! I'm in awe of what everyone brought, these are all so incredible. I'm glad to know that even though your book tour comes nowhere near me (boo!) I still get to enjoy all the fun.

Good luck with all your flying and traveling and all of it! I know it's awful, but at least you have a great time once you're there.

Jen and John,Thanks for all the wonderful Wreckage; both the blog and the book are the funniest stuff I've seen in quite a while. So cool to meet you guys, and the cake and the cupcakes were all pretty awesome, too. I'm sure you'll show the other cities you go to as good a time as you showed us!

We really had fun at the signing! For anyone who reads the blog and is anywhere near a signing, be sure to go! I was the maker of the baby "baked" into cupcake, and was kind of pouting to my boyfriend that I didn't win, but it was so fun to make it really was ok and I got the nifty bookmark, too :) My boyfriend was so cute - he suprised me with an oh-so-sweet cupcake key chain as my prize!

I'm glad that your first night went so well! And I do have to add that I'm super sad that I won't be getting a signature in my book. :( Why no stops in Southern California? Anyway, best of luck on the rest of the tour, and SoCal will miss you!

It's great to see all the mini wrecks, but it also really sucks, especially for us how are going to your later booksignings, because the ones that we were going to do are now already done and photographed :(

I had such a great time at the signing I even blogged about it! (Check it out if you want to see a great pic of Jen!) http://studiorose.wordpress.com/

The necklaces were handmade by Jen and her handsome/hilarious hubby, who handed them out as prizes to the top three Wreckplica Kupkake Kreators. So if you want one, you need to attend a signing and come up with an amazing cupcake. :) I coveted one of those necklaces like you wouldn't believe, but alas, my cupcake didn't make the cut. Still, it was a great time and I highly recommend skipping work, dropping out of school, abandoning the kids - whatever you have to do to go to a signing! I drove 137 miles, and it would have been worth it to go twice as far!

Hey Jen,I wanted to tell you about what happened to my 11 year old son Sean yesterday. You remember "Mr. Chatty" from the Orlando book signing, don't you? Well his teacher asked him why he missed school the other day and my gifted and talented son goes and tells her the truth, that we were playing hooky to go see the Cake Wrecks lady. Next thing you know, she has pulled the web site up for her class and they all love it. Everybody's laughing and my son is the coolest guy in class!!!

I couldn't agree MORE! Johnnie does a fantabulous job of mouth-watering cake confections and she is equally creative in her decorating!! My church group has enjoyed several offerings!! I have had some great laughs over your book and website!!! My stomach is STILL hurting!!! :D :DMuch success in your book!!!

Aw, you were in Winter Park less than two months ago and I missed it. If only I had discovered your blog just a little bit sooner (these past two months or so, I've been going through reading the entries in order from the beginning). All well, it's still a great blog ^_^

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